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MOTOR CARS.
FOR SALE $100, 7 hp. Triumph Saloon, 1930, rebored and overhauled 1938, 30 m.p.g. Available about 20th October. Apply No. 3 House Cosmo- politan Dock, Kowloon, Telephone 50002.
WE BUY, sell and exchange ears from $400, In good running condi- tion. We also insure and repair. G.P.O. China Trading Company. Box 209. Tel. 23563.
GRIM BATTLE RAGING FOR CHINA'S VERDUN
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is flanked by high hills bristling with Chinese artillery,
Although the warships have com- menced to bombard Kitow, they are being subject themselves to intensive on the artillery from the Chinese hillsides, and it is believed that the ships may be forced to retire to- wards Kichun until army reinforce- ments can be brought overland to clear the banks.
East of Kichun, other Japanese warships are methodically bombard ing the hundreds of villages on the banks of the river, reducing them to heaps of rubble.
successes
are
BINYANG FALLS
Other
Japanese claimed north of the Yangste.
Sinyang, on the Pelping-Hankow Railway, has Anally fallen to the invaders.
of Japanese Wave after Wave infantry battered their way through the breaches in the elly's walls after The surrounding forts, comprising the left flank of Hankow's "Maginot Line," had been silenced.
At down this morning a Japanese that the communique announced
Tulsing Sun had been holsted on the tower of Sinyang's custle.
DESCENT ON MACHENG
CATTLE'
SEIZED BY REICH
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TELEGRAPH,
tion of the Mansion House Fund.- Trans-Ocean and Router.
NEW CZECHI PRESIDENT
Prague, Oct. 10. The question of the election of a new President of the Czelo Slovakian Republle In succession to Dr. Edouard Benes is being discussed Employers in British Honduras at a meeting of the Permanent Ways refuse to recognise that em-and Menus Committee of the Czech ployees are not "black cattle,”
So Mr. Philip E. Ely told the West India Royal Commission in London recently.
Mr. Ely worked for many years in charge of labourers In British Hon- duras. He said:
fitted
The term 'black cattle many of, the labourers some years ngo, but that lowly type is now very nearly extinct. Employers, however, will not recognise the fact and sill enforce the old conditions."
ALL EMPLOYERS
After criticizing the medical ser- vices, Mr. Ely maintained that unless the nature of the Legislative Council were altered, no far-reaching Im- provement was likely because the Ricmbers
Parliament.
Although
the
TUESDAY,
London Stock Market
London, Oct. 10. The announcement of increased copper production is generally wel- comed by market elreira as a step in the right direction.
It is polited out that prices have recently been moving up rather rapidly in view of the more optimistic American outlook coupled with the intensification of armament demands.
The increased production, it is believed, will prevent too steep a rise in price, which is considered undesir- Constitutionable both from the producers and
place within a fortnight of a Pre- stipulates that the election must take the consumers viewpoints. sident's death or resignation, it is understood that the Committee has decided on a postponement of matter,
the
A rise above the £45 a ton level might cause some consumers to switch to aluminium.
The market responded to the an- nouncement by a 15 shillings advance to £45, 35. Od. for forward delivery, Dr. Benes is still in Czecho-while the Stock Exchange witnessed It is understood an Intensification of the demand for Slovakin, though
of leading ther advance in that he has promised to leave the copper shares which caused a fur-
producers, country.
in
The Agrarian newspapers Prague are Insisting that no licences be issued to any immigrants either from the Sudeten areas or Austria professions in who may exercise Bohemia.
shores
Tin opened at approximatedly £3 higher and thus continued the recent Upward movement which is molivated by similar ideas as those causing the
rise in copper.
OCTOBER · 11,
1938.
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Wrist & Fancy
Watches
A heavy European demand for They also insist that the Jewish dollars characterised the Foreign Ex- of the Council were, ali problem be solved without sentiment, change Market this morning, well in- or delay, and hint that Jews showed formed circles attribute this to Herr employers of labour.
Despite oficial Intervention little desire to help the Czech Gov-litler's Saarbrucken speech. crnment when it was a question of putting their hands in their pockets dollar strengthened in terms of ster- to contribute to the national defence ling to 4.7075 compared to 4.7031 at
the close on Saturday. Reuter,
"You think that the Council is too packed with interests?" asked Mr. Murgon Junca, M.P. (a member of
the commission).
Mr. Ely: Absolutely; from top to fund-Reuter. bottom.
BLACK MAGIC
Miss Peggy Cox, who has worked
BRITAIN'S LOAN
EXCHANGE RATES
London, Oct. 10, Discussions between British Trea- for 11 years on her uncle's sugar estate in Barbadoes, told the com-sury officials and a Czech delegation mission of the "black magic" prae- concerning the proposed British cre- Geneva.
dits to Czecho-Slovakia are
hre expected Berlin, tised in the West Indies.
Natives, she said, pak-money to to begin on Tuesday. The economie Paris.
as an insurance problems, resulting from the with Athens tlin against harm coming to them from drawal from the frontier by the Brussels.
witch doctor
Foreign Ofee officials are expected | Oslo...; people who possessed the "evil eye." Czechs will be discussed ut length, Milan If a man seriously believed that the to assist in the talks-Reuter. evil eye was put on han he got worse in health
SHORTS GIRLS MUST BUY
near
SKIRTS
Amsterdam. Police of Ginneken, small Dutch town
the Belgian frontier, stopped thirty-five girls who were walking or cycling through streets in shorts recently.
the
TERMS REJECTED
Komorn, Oct. 10.
Helsingfors..
It is disclosed that the Czech rejec- New York was Busharest lion of the Hungarian claims
the
Oct. 7.
Oct. 10.
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20.04
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11.00
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-British Wireless.
based on the fact that the ethno- Vienna logical maps the Hungarian delega-
The Hongkong tion used were out-of-date. Hungarians agreed to study the Szech Shanghai maps and allow an expert commis- Bombay.... sion to compare them both with the Yokohama. actual state of the nationalities to-Belgrade.. iday.-United Press.
DELEGATES MEET
Czecho-
Montreal
Montevideo.
Buenos Aires.
Rio de Janeiro...248 Komorn, Oct. 10.
Silver (spot)....19% The Hungarian delegation which Silver (forward).10 Those who had coats with them returned here on Monday to continue War Loan......1012
the with were made to put them on in the egotiations street. Those who had not were Slovakian delegation was given a taken to the police station and told triumphal welcome by that they must buy skirts to avoid tanta. arrest. Every girl obeyed.
"The clothing of lots of Dutch girls is shocking." say the authorities, "We want to improve morality and we had to interfere."
Canada Sets Thanksgiving
Ottawa, Ont.
the Inhabi-¦ =
Nom.
110% 1078
15. 3d.
кист a commission to the actual The conference lasted only two scenes was no reason for delaying
the negotiations. hours, and concluded at 4 p.m.
The Slovak leaders declared that It was decided, therefore, that a in principle they were willing to commission of experts should meet Recept the Hungarian demands for at 9 am, on Thursday, in the mean- the return to Hungary of those ter- time the Slovaks will submit their relating to the ritories
Hungarian counter-proposals predominantly but considered that the line of de- demarcation of the frontler at the mareation proposed by the Hungar- next meeting of the delegations, at delegation went beyond the present scheduled for Tuesday after- ethnic boundaries.
then It is leamed that the Hungarians
The Hungarian delegation
noon.
A proclamation setting Monday, proposed the setting up of a mixed will continue to insist on the right of Oct. 10, as Thanksgiving Day in commission to define the boundary the Slovak and Carpatho-Ukrainian Canndu has been published in the between the Hungarians and the peoples to complete self-determina-
oftlon-Trans-Ocean, Slovaks. though the despaten On the north-east front the Japan-Canada Gazette. ese who pierced the Chinese forti- of fications alop the Tapleh range mountains are now descending on Mucheng, Chinese field headquarters in this area. They are reported to be only 15 miles from their objective, which in about 180 miles from Hankow.
ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS
DEPARTING
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or 50,000, is now thought to be less
than 25,000.--Reuter,
TO MEET THEIR KING
Naples, Oct. 10.
Ten thousand Italian legionnaires who arc being repatriated from Spain are expected here on October 20, they will be met by King Victor Emanuel.
Four steamers salled from here for Cadiz to bring the troops home. -Reuter,
DELLIGERENT RIGHTS
Burgos, Oct. 10.
In a Epceipl. interview General Franco claimed that with the ret patriation of 10,000 volunteers from Insurgent Spain there is no reason now for not granting belligerent rights,
He rejected the suggestion of mediation and declared that there could be no other end of the war except. "unconditional surrender of the vanquished."-Reuter.
"NO RACE" DECLARED Sweepstake Event Held By Yacht Club
The sweepstake race held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yester day over 7.0 miles, was declared "no race" for "A" class yachts as the time limit was exceeded,
Results of the "1" and "y" classes, which started at 14.55 were:
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